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" Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him. "

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" I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps. "

" I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being. "

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" For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. "

" Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it. "

" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. "

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" The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. "

" Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies. "

" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "

" We are most alive when we're in love. "

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" Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it. "